Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1887-05-18
OUR RAILROAD INTERESTS.
The Montana Central to be Com
pIeted TO Butte. by May Ist.

BUTTE, May 16.-Col. G. A. Broadwater
| president of the Montana Central,who ar
rived from Helena this morning, said to an
| Inter Houltaan reporter to-day: You may
tell the peopleof Butte that the Montana
Central will be completed and running
trains to Butte by the 1st of next May
We are pushing work to the utmost all
along the line The road will be COM
pleted to Fort Buford by the 1st of June,
to Great Falls between the 1st and 18th Of
September and to Helena in thirty days
after. Between Great Falls and Helena
all that remains to be done is to lay track.
On the Butte extension everything de-
pends on the completing Of the tunnels.
There are six of them; the 6,0o0-foot one
in the Wickes vicinity, an 500-foot one in
Boulder canyon, three smaller ones fur-
ther this way, and finally the tunnel
through the spur that puts down from the
north to Park canyon. It is to see about
this last tunnel that j came over to-day,
| telegraphed from St. Paul last week to
commence work upon it with as large a
force of men as can be made available.
We have been to work on the approaches
of the big tunnel at Wickes for some time
past, getting things in readiness for using
machinery. The machinery is now ali
on the ground and it will be put in motion
in q few days.
"The Butte depots o, we have not got
to that yet and will not for some time.
We feel there is no hurry about it and
that it can be settled easily when the pro
per times comes No; we have not con
sidered the question at all until the road
is nearing completion But it seems to
me union depot would be a good thing;
it would be more convenient for the pub
lie, TO say the least
LIVESTOCK SHIPMENT
S. L. Moore furnishes the following
and estimates concerning live
stock shipments: Last year the Northern
Pacific shipped east eight thousand head |
of horses, against four hundred head two
years previous and -fra-thaneal,ll- i.s4 |
hundred one year previous. 1t will be |
seen that the horse business is Increasing I
very rapidly in the west, perhaps more
rapidly than any other branch of the live |
stock business; but itmust be remembered I
that it is just now being realized that this
is pre-eminently a horse country, and it I
may be expected that the business will /
go on with an increased velocity. In the
lest two years the Northern Pacific roaaI
has shipped to points west of jamestown,
Dakota, between twelve hundred and
fifteen hundred valuable Stations, andsI
many of these were very costly ones.
single carloads, in some instances, being
valued at $4,000. Mr.. Moore also SAYS
hat his road is preparing to put on d
supply OF patent double decked cars for
The accommodation of sheep shippers.
Formerly parties shipping sheep were put
to Il cost of from 80 to S12 per car for
putting in these double decks, the cost
varying according to the price of lumber
at the points from which shipments were
made. Henceforth this expense will be
spared the shipper. The company ex-
poets to handle this year a number of
west hound bulls, and but few cattle of
any other kind. Mr.. Moore estimates the
shipment of beeves from Montana this
year at one hundred thousand or more.
Last year the road shipped 10000 sheep
from Montana to the east, but it is not ex-
pected that the shipments will be so
heavy this year.
THE GAUGE WIDENING